The excavations last fall uncovered multiple layers of farm remains and hearths, indicating occupation over at least 1,000 years.
Wells appear, indicating occupation by the living, and any graves in the area are increasingly confined to restricted plots or placed along the roads outside the town limits.
The remains of numerous hill forts around the burgh of Peebles indicate occupation of Peeblesshire in the early Iron Age, and there are standing stones near the confluence of Lyne Water and the Tweed.
Aurignacian and Gravettian tools have also been discovered there, indicating occupation between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago.
Finds in the nearby Karain Cave indicate occupation during the Paleolithic era as far back as 20,000 BC, and archeological evidence shows a port existed at Syedra, south of the modern city, during the Bronze Age around 3,000 BC.
The finds on the site indicate occupation from the late 1st, or early 2nd, century to the late 4th, or early 5th, century, although as no public buildings were found the settlement was probably not, technically, a town.
A site on Sands Key has yielded potsherds, worked shells and other artifacts indicating occupation from at latest 1000 AD to about 1650, after contact was made with Europeans.
Arrows indicate occupations in which the increase in men accelerated in the 2008-10 period.
The results indicated that Occupation, herd-size and education level were the significant factors.
Wail indicated his occupation as "teacher", and that he would be traveling with his brother on a four-to-six month vacation, which would be paid for with Wail's teacher salary.
